Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 75
Rather should I have fled away and hidden myself as best I could."
What happens: flee away, hide · To what, where: Rather, myself
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rather | rather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fled | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fled | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fled | aux |
| 5 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 fled | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hidden | cc |
| 8 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fled | conj |
| 9 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 8 hidden | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 best | case |
| 11 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 could | nmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 could | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hidden | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fled | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee away | should · perfect · passive | Rather | I nsubj; away property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | hide | participle | myself | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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